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Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease: One Week in Tanzania

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CALS student Kati Scruggs in the Guatemalan landscape

Aug 29, 2017

One Student, a World of Opportunity

In two life-changing experiences in Guatemala, CALS senior Kati Scruggs did everything from researching maize to administering meals and vitamins to children in need. 
MaryBeth Tyndall, 4H and Poultry Science freshman

Aug 14, 2017

From 4-H to the Brickyard

When 4-H Skillathon champion and second-generation CALS student MaryBeth Tyndall hits the Brickyard on the first day of classes, she'll already know her way around campus. 
CALS doctoral student Brianna Hess Massie standing in a field.

Aug 9, 2017

Grad Student Spotlight: Brianna Hess Massie

CALS doctoral student Brianna Hess Massie is looking for simple solutions to help farmers deal with lagoon waste. 
Healthy cassava leaves

Aug 9, 2017

Notes From Tanzania: A Farmer’s Story from the Field

In her fourth "Notes from Tanzania," grad student Catherine Doyle explains how surveys are helping scientists and farmers battle two important diseases affecting cassava. 
NC State grad student Shahnee Haire sitting in a chair

Aug 4, 2017

Grad Student Spotlight: Shahnee Haire

Graduate student Shahnee Haire says that her certificate program helped prepare her for assisting those in her county who lost everything after Hurricane Matthew. 
Three researchers in an agricultural field

Aug 3, 2017

Notes from Tanzania: Lessons from the Field

Ph.D. student Catherine Doyle outlines some lessons learned during her field work on a devastating crop disease in Tanzania. This is the third in a series of posts on her experiences. 
CALS postdoc Sayed Mashaheet

Jul 27, 2017

Grad Student Spotlight: Sayed Mashaheet

This CALS Ph.D. alumnus and postdoc is working to develop resilient wheat varieties that are more tolerant to ozone — a pollutant often associated with climate change — and more resistant to wheat rust. 
CALS Ph.D. student Pragya Adhikari in a greenhouse

Jul 21, 2017

Grad Student Spotlight: Pragya Adhikari

CALS doctoral student Pragya Adhikari -- who conducts research at the intersection of plant pathology and breeding -- is trying to breed a tomato that is tastier and more resistant to disease. 

Jul 21, 2017

Princess? Ballerina? Not A Chance.

Since she was a child, Erin Stewart has dreamed of a career in agriculture. Now a junior agriculture education major in CALS, she's taking advantage of every opportunity to turn that dream into reality. 
Woman with cassava plants in a greenhouse

Jul 17, 2017

Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease: One Week in Tanzania

NC State Ph.D. student Catherine Doyle had seen infected cassava in a lab, but a trip to Tanzania allowed her to connect that work to what's happening in the field. Read more in this second in a series of posts on her journey to help defeat cassava mosaic disease.